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Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022 Accounting for qualia in the natural world is a difficult business, and it is worth understanding why. A close examination of several theories of mind—Behaviorism, Identity Theory, Functionalism, and Integrated Information Theory—will be discussed, revealing shortcomings for these theories in explaining the contents of conscious experience: qualia.
Paul Skokowski
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Electromagnetic-field theories of qualia: can they improve upon standard neuroscience? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 How do brains create all our different colors, pains, and other conscious qualities? These various qualia are the most essential aspects of consciousness.
Jones MW, Hunt T.
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Exclusion and Underdetermined Qualia [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 Integrated information theory (IIT) asserts that both the level and the quality of consciousness can be explained by the ability of physical systems to integrate information. Although the scientific content and empirical prospects of IIT have attracted interest, this paper focuses on another aspect of IIT, its unique theoretical structure, which ...
Kyumin Moon
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Current Biology, 2004 What are qualia? Qualia – singular quale – is the philosophical term for the introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our lives, the elemental feelings and sensations that are the building blocks of conscious experience. Qualia are at the very heart of the mind–body problem. How do the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the
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Comparing color qualia structures through a similarity task in young children versus adults [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaYusuke Moriguchi +2 more
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Current Biology, 2012 SummaryPerhaps the most difficult biological question of all might be how and why electrochemical neuronal activity in the brain generates subjective conscious experience such as the redness of red or the painfulness of pain. Neuroscientists track how light impinging on the retina is transformed into electrical pulses (neuronal spikes), relayed through
Kanai, Ryota, Tsuchiya, Naotsugu
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The Philosophical Quarterly, 2018 This paper revisits some classic thought experiments in which experiences are detached from their characteristic causal roles, and explores what these thought experiments tell us about qualia epiphenomenalism, i.e., the view that qualia are epiphenomenal properties.
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, 2013 Um dos maiores desafios a qualquer teoria da consciência é explicar o caráter fenomenal dos estados conscientes. Por que estados conscientes estariam associados a determinadas sensações? Lewis (1929), quem primeiro introduziu o termo, definia “qualia” como estados irredutivelmente subjetivos que seriam inefáveis, infalíveis e privados.
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Escritura y Pensamiento, 2017 El presente artículo muestra el carácter problemático de los qualia para una teoría de lo mental. Con el término ‘qualia,’ hacemos referencia a aspectos no intencionales de estados mentales eminentemente cualitativos como pueden ser las experiencias perceptuales, las emociones, los humores y las sensaciones corporales.
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, 1992 "Qualia" is an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us. As is so often the case with philosophical jargon, it is easier to give examples than to give a definition of the term. Look at a glass of milk at sunset; the way it looks to you--the particular, personal, subjective visual quality of
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